Riding a wave: Embodied skills and colonial history on the Amazon floodplain

Ethnos

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 197-219

  Harris, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brazil; Embodiment; History; Practice; Skills; Taskscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444435931     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840500141287     Document Type: Article

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